31.5.13

“Ding Jinhao was here” - this 15-year-old Chinese kid scratched his name in the Temple of Luxor, an Egyptian artwork founded in 1400 BCE

Wingsuit flight by Cedric Dumont over Nazca lines, a set of giant mystic markings stencilled into the Peruvian desert 1,500 years ago

Workers set up a dust screen on a demolition site in Xi’an, Shaanxi province

With the pitch drop experiment Professor Thomas Parnell illustrates the fluidity of an everyday material like pitch. In 1927 Parnell heated a sample of pitch and poured it into a glass funnel. From 1930 on the pitch has slowly dripped out of the funnel. 83 years later, the ninth drop is only just fully formed.

23.5.13

A pigeon called Usain Bolt became the world’s most expensive racing bird when his Belgian breeder sold it for €310,000 ($400,000) to a Chinese businessman.

Ricardo Cases photographed the practice of pigeon racing in the Spanish regions of Valencia and Murcia, a game consisting of releasing one female pigeon and dozens of male pigeons, painted in primary colors.